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Florida Unit Planning with ThinkCERCA: Social Studies

Lauren Miller

Updated October 24, 2016 15:52

ThinkCERCA offers a wide variety of standards-aligned lessons that meet Florida's Reading and Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies and can easily integrate into your curriculum. These lessons include differentiated sets of applied writing lessons as well as direct instruction lessons to introduce or review key, subject-specific literacy concepts with your students. The following social studies sets and lessons are organized by discipline for quick inclusion into units and address a key question for collaborative discussion and debate:

Time in the Industrial Revolution: How did the changing nature of work during the Industrial Revolution create a changing concept of time for businesses and workers? (LAFS.RH.1.1, LAFS.WHST.1.1)

Suggested Pairing: Explicit and Inferred Information (LAFS.RH.1.1)

Immigration through Ellis Island:How did individuals' experiences at Ellis Island both affect their lives and reflect the changes taking place in the United States at the time? (LAFS.RH.3.8, LAFS.WHST.1.1)

Suggested Pairing: Multiple Perspectives (LAFS.RI.2.6)

Progressive Era Child Labor: What challenges did advocates for child labor laws face during the Progressive Era in the United States? (LAFS.RH.3.9, LAFS.WHST.1.1)

Suggested Pairing: Multiple Perspectives (LAFS.RI.2.6)

The Great Depression: Which of the proposed or attempted solutions to the Great Depression was most effective? (LAFS.RH.3.7, LAFS.WHST.1.1)

Suggested Pairing: Reading Visual Sources (LAFS.RH.3.7)

Voting Rights Act:What strategies were most effective in the struggle to pass the Voting Rights Act? (LAFS.RH.1.3, LAFS.WHST.1.1)

Suggested Pairing: Summarizing (LAFS.RI.1.2)

Women in War: What are the opportunities and challenges of women fighting in combat? (LAFS.RH.2.5, LAFS.WHST.1.1)